822 
THE YOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER, 
fortunately the whole crew, seventy-one persons in all, were saved. The shipwrecked 
people built huts, which they thatched or covered with the skins of Elephant Seals and 
Fur Seals, on the flesh of which, and on fish, they were obliged chiefly to subsist, as 
notwithstanding the plenteousness of the goats, they were difficult to procure, and they 
had little powder or shot to spare for this purpose; cats, however, were plentiful, and 
they varied their diet with these animals, which were thought good food. Their 
vegetable diet consisted of turnips, the cabbage palm, water cresses, and void sorrel. 
This crew remained on the island until October, during which time they managed to 
construct, from the remains of the wreck of their ship, a schooner of about 20 tons 
burthen, in which forty-seven of them embarked and left the island, eleven English- 
Fic. 299. — Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernandez. 
men and thirteen Indians remaining. In this schooner they captured a ship at Pisco 
and abandoned their crazy vessel to the crew of their prize, but did not return for 
the rest of their shipmates on Juan Fernandez. These, however, were apparently 
soon after taken off, for when Eoggewein called at the island in March 1722, he makes 
no mention of any people being there, but merely says that they salted down a number 
of fish, and that one of the officers fell over a precipice and was killed. 
The next account of Juan Fernandez Island is from the voyage of Commodore Anson, 
who touched there in 1741 and landed his crew, then suffering dreadfully from the 
scurvy. He anchored in Cumberland Bay in June in the “ Centurion,” and was joined there 
by the “Trial,” the “ Gloucester,” and the “Anna.” At this time the productions of the 
